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KAMIKAZE_
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 Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject: [solved] AMD Radeon HD 7970 support |
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Hi there! Yesturday I've got my new videocard which is GIGABYTE GV-R797OC-3GD Radeon HD 7970. Unfortunately I can't get it working with Xorg. Tried to use aticonfig (from ati-drivers 12.2 package) with no luck. Is there any success story with HD 7000 cards?
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| To use a 7xxx in Linux you currently need the beta drivers, which AMD only supplies to Ubuntu. |
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chithanh
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| 12.2 supports the 7970 now, maybe you can be more specific about your problem? |
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KAMIKAZE_
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| chithanh wrote: | | 12.2 supports the 7970 now, maybe you can be more specific about your problem? |
This is my xorg.conf (created by aticonfig --initial): http://pastebin.com/TG2L5aRs
And this is info gathered by amd tool (comes with ati-drivers I believe): http://pastebin.com/bL37G4Ug (there are some problems staring line 3750)
X server tries to start, then I see black screen without mouse cursor and nothing even blinks.
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chithanh
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| Code: | | [ 731.278524] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: X/7563 |
Google says that this is due to kernel preemption. But whether it causes your problem I don't know. Other than that there is no error in Xorg.0.log. |
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KAMIKAZE_
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| chithanh wrote: | | Code: | | [ 731.278524] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: X/7563 |
Google says that this is due to kernel preemption. But whether it causes your problem I don't know. Other than that there is no error in Xorg.0.log. |
will try to fix that. Does anyone have an xorg.conf example of working HD7xxx ? Or at least HD 6xxx 
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KAMIKAZE_
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Solved by switching to ~amd64
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MarcusXP
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Can you please tell me how you made your 7970 work on Gentoo?
I have a 7950 and I can't get it working, the screen goes blank right after grub.
I used to have a Radeon 6870 which worked okay.. but not after I changed the video card with 7950.
To configure the kernel for 6870 I followed the guide below, but there is no info about the Radeon HD 7xxx series...
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon
thanks a lot, |
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eusanpe
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MarcusXP,
Were you able to get this to work. I am having the same issue as you are after installing the Catalyst 12.6 beta drivers.
Thanks,
Tony |
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